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Title:

Bindi : the multifaceted lives of Indo-Caribbean women / edited by Rosanne Kanhai.

Publisher:

University of the West Indies Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

vi, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Gender identity--Caribbean Area.
Women--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.
Women--Caribbean Area--Economic conditions.
Women--Religious life--Caribbean Area.
East Indians--Caribbean Area--Ethnic identity.
East Indians--Cultural assimilation--Caribbean Area.
Women, East Indian--Caribbean, English-speaking.

Other Authors:

Kanhai, Rosanne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references. Sequel to: Matikor.

Contents:

Women in the Ramayana tradition in Trinidad / Sherry-Ann Singh -- Rings, gifts and shekels : marriage and dowry within the Indo-Muslim community in Trinidad : 1930 to the globalized present / Halima Sa'adia Kassim -- Unlikely matriarchs : rural Indo-Trinidadian women in the domestic sphere / Shaheeda Hosein -- Finding self in the transition from East to West / Valerie Youssef -- No pure place of resistance : reflections on being Ms Mastana Bahar 2000 / Gabrielle Jamela Hosein -- Women as invisible healers : traditional midwives in Trinidad and Tobago / Kumar Mahabir -- Identity, activism and spirituality in the art of Bernadette Persaud / Brenda Gopeesingh -- Breaking with tradition : hybridity, identity and resistance in Indo-Caribbean women's writing / Anita Baksh -- Beyond fragile homes : Indo-Trinidadian women constructing habitable narratives / Paula E. Morgan.

ISBN:

9766402388
9789766402389

OCLC:

(OCoLC)662407923

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)